I went outside to let it sink into my being,
like the roots of trees mingle with soil,
like the rain absorbs to the earth,
the tears I shed fell from the deck and landed on flowers below,
the flowers that will grow there will cover the whole world

Your spirit: the wind through the chimes,
Your spirit: like mine always free.

Me? it only makes my prayer stronger,
only makes my life more thankful.

The tears overwhelmed me in a wave that sent my body to the ground,
the place that we return to…
the place that grew us with it’s soil,

I felt you moving in the space above our bodies,
stopped the other day to think of how many memories go to the grave
with each of us.

I believe that these feelings and memories are germinated there,
like winter gives way to spring,
and the same way spring gives birth to summer,

I don’t know what to think of heaven,
but I do know what to think of the sky,
it’s many colors,
horizons,
and layers of atmosphere give way to something greater,
something…science can only reach in equations.

But WE the children of the mighty creator,
know beyond and grow beyond these limitations of earth,
a far greater expanse of meadows awaits us,
takes us into it’s self and we combine.

May each of our journeys be filled with peace and compassion

In what ever form you become I’ll see you in all…
small to infinite.

I stand in the middle and behold you at the end,
watching my son who follows from the beginning,
this cycle may never end,
this path will not bend,

The tears of your passing are like ink on my page
color on canvas.

So, now that is sunk in,
into my cells,
into the pages settles the ink
and your foot steps dust has settled form your life.

I look to the first sun rise of another birth,
I look to the tear seed of hope as it falls to the earth,
I look to another tomorrow,

In complete surrender to life’s mighty mystery.

May we all face that night with strength and courage and reverence

Standing at the half way where the sea meets the coast,
where life means the most,
as years roll by like a river flooding the banks
all I can do is give thanks